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Just perfect. Each one of these you show gets better and better. And I love the way you faked the snow in September. Very believable.
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Just for the record, the Airfix 1/12 is a reissue of a kit that's been around since 1972. It's a magnificent canvas for detailing as much or as little as you want to. Why not get both scales?
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Well, I've never made a search on this forum that wasn't useless. All I get is stuff with specific words highlighted and nothing of value.
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NO. If you use their products, copyrights and trademarks without their approval, in any form, your butt will end up in a sling. I've been in the ad agency business for many years and keep up on this sort of thing. Your question reminds me of the nonexistent "3-note rule" in music; George Harrison had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in court awards for "My Sweet Lord" because the notes were the same as "He's So Fine." Coldplay settled out of court for untold money because "Viva La Vida" had a chorus that had nearly exactly the same notes as an earlier song by an obscure band. You don't mess with trademark and copyright law. And the corporations know how to use it - even against small cottage industry companies that make T-shirts and aftermarket decals for model cars. I don't know how to make this any clearer. Go back and re-read my prior post.
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No such thing as 90% or whatever, which couldn't be measured anyway. If a model company has a licensing agreement with a corporation, it's up to the corporation to determine and approve if you have reproduced their product and represented it to an acceptable level for them. There have been a number of posts on this issue here (notably, from a box art artist who had to deal with approvals from both the model company and Texaco for his designs, which was published a few issues ago in MCM). And it mostly has to do with the bottom line, less with time crunches. The bottom line on this subject: Forget about your own logic. Forget about "free advertising." Forget about new ways to make licensing cheaper because the experienced, professional kit makers have been working on this for decades. Go with the examples of history. And go listen to the podcast that Casey posted on this forum, of an interview with Revell's product guys, Ed Sexton and Roger Harney, about how licensing costs have kept Revell from issuing any more NASCAR models.
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Stunning, as usual from you. Any interior and engine shots?
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Looks like a Palmer kit of a Ferrari 275 GTB.
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How do you open paint jars?
sjordan2 replied to groo12's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
This is Mike today. -
Wow. More modelers should pay that kind of attention to seats and interiors overall.
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I'll say it before someone else moves your question and you can't find it (they won't tell you it's been moved) - move this post to the Modeling Q&A forum, further down the main page... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showforum=8
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What Revell should put out as Kits...
sjordan2 replied to TheCat's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
If you missed it, the podcast that Casey posted the other day is very pertinent to this topic - Ed Sexton and Roger Harney interview (the product guys from Revell). http://www.modelcars...showtopic=63193 -
This is such a unique car, with such swoopy lines, I think it needs simpler wheels like from a Bugatti T50 or something very round and flat, very dish-like. Maybe even full moons. Even though there's the Corvettte split-window reference and Ferrari elements, I think the look should stand on its own. Actually, I'd go with something that looks like the Cord wheels and hubcaps.
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Building old kits is... (fill in the blank)
sjordan2 replied to vwdave92's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I think you could say the same thing about modern 1:1 cars in general. -
I would also call it Testerrific. I may have missed something in volumes I and II of this killer build, but does it have doors? Or are the panel lines just hard to see?
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Apparently made originally by Best http://oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=19496&page=72 http://cs.scaleautom...602.aspx#417602
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Would you pay more...
sjordan2 replied to gluebomb's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
And a lot of the aftermarket companies selling unlicensed decals and transfers have been shut down by the trademark owners' lawyers. -
Would you pay more...
sjordan2 replied to gluebomb's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I'm with Charlie on this one. And once again, almost no corporation sees the use of their trademark or other intellectual property by an unlicensed third party as "free advertising." Most big tire companies have spent about a century building their brands and don't need it, particularly from a small niche market like car modelers. Companies need to protect their brands in the manner they see fit. Further, since there appears to be such a strong desire by modelers to have correct, branded tires in the kits, wouldn't that make the kits more attractive and valuable to the buyers - hence, deserving of a licensing fee paid by the kit manufacturers capitalizing on the appeal of tire brands? Of course, cost would be a deal-breaker to them. -
This may be an extreme exception, but I have a metal 1:18 model kit of a Bugatti T59 Grand Prix car - the same as issued by Bburago in a built diecast form. The Bugatti fanatics at bugattibuilder.com know this model well. The consensus is (and my measurements confirm it, based on original blueprints) that the model is actually somewhere between 1/15 and 1/16 scale. Apparently this is because they had a basic set of wire wheels for their classics line, and simply scaled the cars so they could use the same wheels on each model. I wonder how much of this sort of thing goes on in other scales to permit parts interchangeability. And if you think this site is loaded with dilettante scale bigots and rivet counters, you should go to bugattibuilder.com to see how millionaire Bugatti restorers and aficionados get into flame wars. PS: The wire wheels shown below aren't even correct. This car had piano wire wheels, which are available on the scale aftermarket for about $65. [by the way, the website name bugattibuilder.com does not refer to building Bugatti models. It refers to rebuilding and restoring 1:1 Bugattis.]
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Aston Martin DBR9 and Jaguar XKR GT3 - Airfix 1/32
sjordan2 replied to Matt Bacon's topic in Model Cars
Fantastic work. I also like the MG. Is that a Magnette? -
1/24th-1/25th scale, why is it a big deal
sjordan2 replied to martinfan5's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
So, it seems that hardcore American builders are pretty unanimous about kits being issued in 1:25. But even if 1:24 is the standard for the rest of the world, are those builders as demanding as we are about the scale? Something for the model company to ponder. -
VW Tiki Type 2
sjordan2 replied to Eero's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Totally love it! Great creativity and craftsmanship.